We implement decompositions of cyclical unemployment in a large developing country using the conventional 3-states and a 4-states representation of the labor market, where in the latter we subdivide the employment state into formal and informal forms of employment. This allows a richer analysis...

Using data from the 2017-2018 Household Budget Survey, the work investigates the demographic, geographic and socioeconomic determinants of Brazilian families' expenditure on acquiring health insurance plans for their members. A distinctive characteristic of the data is that most Brazilian...

Using data from the 2017-2018 Households Budget Survey, the work investigates the demographic and socioeconomic determinants of the Brazilian families investment in the basic education of their school-age members, which is processed through three sequential decisions: school attendance, the...